Modernity is not often associated with ruins. Yet in the middle of an intense process of industrialization and city population growth, the utopian idea of economic growth and progress developed since the 19th century into a steep global capitalist search for profit maximization, which gave place to a large number of industrial ruins, climate and environmental crisis, social and “spatial injustice” across the globe.

By acknowledging “ruin waste” as raw material, this research purposes an alternative material form that acknowledges other non-human agencies in the process of making. Material exploration is used as a catalyst to stimulate and foster creative connections between art, architecture, material science and the collective. Methods of architectural discourse, sculpture storytelling and speculative fabulating are used to generate ideas and reimagine alternative stories for the future of the city.